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title: RENAMO accused FRELIMO of fraud and threatened to return to civil wa… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: RENAMO accused FRELIMO of fraud and threatened to return to civil war but backed down after taking the matter to the Supreme Court and losing. Who acts: RENAMO. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mozambique» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mozambique, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Mozambique»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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RENAMO accused FRELIMO of fraud and threatened to return to civil war but backed down after taking the matter to the Supreme Court and losing.

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**Who acts:** RENAMO · **What happens:** accuse, threaten, return, back down, take, lose · **To what, where:** FRELIMO, matter, Supreme Court

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (RENAMO), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Mozambique:105
# text = RENAMO accused FRELIMO of fraud and threatened to return to civil war but backed down after taking the matter to the Supreme Court and losing.
1	RENAMO	RENAMO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	FRELIMO	FRELIMO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fraud	fraud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accuse** | past | RENAMO | FRELIMO |  |  |  | of fraud | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent frelimo=Theme of fraud=Attribute |
| 2 | **threaten** | participle | RENAMO *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | RENAMO *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to civil war *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to war=Result |
| 4 | **back down** | participle | RENAMO *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | RENAMO *not said here* | the matter | the Supreme Court |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme to court=Destination |
| 6 | **lose** | gerund | RENAMO *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mozambique», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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